“Basketball Wives LA” newbie Brandi Maxiel is the latest to get involve in reality TV drama.

And all she wanted to do was promote cancer awareness!

“I wanted to come in because I wanted to bring awareness to the situation that I was going through and women dealing with fertility issues,” said Brandi who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in her 20s. “I was 24 dealing with this… I felt like my whole world was crashing. I wasn’t ready for that then.”

She’s a survivor, but she’s still dealing the disease’s impact.

“When you have cancer, the struggle is that it can come at any given time. Once you’re prone to cancer, you’re prone.”

But although she’s survived cancer, she’s still a victim of Reality TV messiness.

“It was crazy,” Brandi said of meeting her co-stars. “Crazy thing about it was that I knew what it was going to be when I came in. When you get a whole bunch of women together who don’t know each other, it tends to be a little catty. When I came in, I didn’t expect for it to be as bad as it turned out.”

“Jackie really surprised me. With her being older, I just felt that…I thought she would be a little more caring because she’s older and she’s been in the league so long. I thought she would be a better mentor,” Maxiel said.

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